[EL] Population deviations not from county boundary adherence

[Justin Levitt]

I talk about this issue a bit with respect to deviations that may be 
required by the Voting Rights Act, in a new forthcoming piece 
<http://ssrn.com/abstract=2128923> on California's redistricting 
commission (the relevant discussion is on pp. 44-47).  In this context, 
it's somewhat more of a theoretical discussion than what you may be 
looking for (it discusses the commission's actual implementation of a 
standard, but not its application to any particular California 
districts), but it might perhaps be useful.

Justin

On 8/29/2012 8:51 AM, John Tanner wrote:
> Continuing that spirit, I'll toss out a one-person, one-vote issue 
> somewhat related to Larios.  I am looking for instances in which 
> courts or shcolars have addressed unbalanced population deviations 
> within the10% population deviation standard for redistricting plans -- 
> that is, where , rather than staying within plus or minus 5%, a plan 
> has with a range of, say, plus 2 minus 8 -- and where the imbalance 
> does not flow from adherence to county boundaries.

-- 
Justin Levitt
Associate Professor of Law
Loyola Law School | Los Angeles
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA  90015
213-736-7417
justin.levitt at lls.edu
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